Assimilation and Elision Quiz

How many kind of assimilation across word boundaries in terms of the direction change are there?

• Four

• Three

• Two

The final sound /v/ in ‘of’ could be lost when it comes before ________

• Fortis consonants

• Vowels

• Consonants

The assimilation is called _____ if the phoneme that follows is affected by the one that comes before it.

• elision

• regressive

• progressive

/s/preceding /ʃ/in the phrase ‘nice shell’ becomes___________

• ʒ

• dʒ

• ʃ

Assimilation of voice only take place in ______

• progressive

• regressive

• vowels

One of the elision is that /r/, /l/, /n/ become ______ consonants when they come before /ə/.

• Fortis

• Syllabic

• Lenis

____ is the disappearance of sounds in speech, which makes the language easier to say and faster.

• Liaison

• Assimilation

• Elision